Engineering Manager

Augment

24d•Hybrid

About The Position

Augment is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and scale one of its core engineering teams. This role involves managing a team of engineers, staying hands-on with technical decisions, and collaborating with Product and cross-functional partners to deliver impactful systems. The Engineering Manager will shape both the people and technical direction of the team, focusing on building AI teammates to automate complex workflows in the logistics industry.

Requirements

6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering leadership or people management.
Strong technical foundation in building distributed systems and backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, or Python.
Experience leading teams in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
Ability to balance hands-on technical involvement with team leadership and execution oversight.
Strong communicator who can explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable working through ambiguity and helping teams break down complex projects into deliverable milestones.

Nice To Haves

Experience at early- or growth-stage startups.
Experience working with AI agents, LLMs, or agentic architectures.
Background in logistics, freight, or related industries.
Experience scaling engineering teams or working across multiple offices.
Open-source contributions, technical writing, or mentorship experience.

Responsibilities

Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
Drive technical execution on key product and platform initiatives, ensuring the team ships high-quality, reliable systems.
Stay hands-on when needed — participate in architecture reviews, write production code occasionally, and support critical decision-making.
Partner closely with Product, AI, and Ops to define roadmaps, clarify requirements, and align priorities.
Experience building 0→1 products, with a willingness to stay hands-on while scaling and shaping the engineering function.
Improve engineering processes, rituals, and on-call practices to help the team move faster with increasing quality.
Create clarity through strong communication — ensuring teams understand goals, trade-offs, and success criteria.
Collaborate with other engineering managers to shape engineering culture, standards, and best practices.
Participate in hiring and onboarding to help scale our engineering organization, including building and leading our new Customer Support product team.